United States Lime & Minerals Stock | Price, Analyst Rating & Outlook for 2026

United States Lime &...

NasdaqGS:USLM

$ 135,81

+ $5,20 (3,98%)

135,81 $

+$5,20 (3,98%)

End-of-day quote: 04/01/2026

United States Lime & Minerals Stock Value

The analyst rating for NasdaqGS:USLM is currently Buy.

Buy

United States Lime & Minerals Company Info

EPS Growth 5Y

0,00%

Market Cap

$3,89 B

Long-Term Debt

$0,02 B

Short Interest

5,53%

Annual earnings

N/A

Dividend

$0,24

Dividend Yield

0,18%

Founded

1950

Industry

Materials

Country

United States

ISIN Number

US9119221029

Website

http://www.uslm.com

Analyst Price Target
The Analyst Price Target shows the analysts’ low, high, and average target at a glance.

$138,00

1.61%

Last Update: 04/02/2026

Analysts: 1

Highest Price Target $138,00

Average Price Target $138,00

Lowest Price Target $138,00

In the last five quarters, United States Lime & Minerals’s Price Target has risen from $0,00 to $135,81 - a 100,00% increase. One analysts predict that United States Lime & Minerals’s share price will increase in the coming year, reaching $138,00. This would represent an increase of 1,61%.

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What does United States Lime & Minerals do?

United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. is a manufacturer of lime and limestone products, supplying primarily the construction (including highway, road, and building contractors), industrial (including paper and glass manufacturers), environmental (including municipal sanitation and water treatment facilities and flue gas treatment processes), metals (including steel producers), roof shingle manufacturers, agriculture (including poultry producers), and oil and gas services industries. The company c...

The company conducts its business primarily through its lime and limestone operations. The company also has natural gas interests with respect to oil and gas rights in Johnson County, Texas.

Business and Products

The company operates lime and limestone plants and distribution facilities in Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Arkansas Lime Company, ART Quarry TRS LLC (DBA Carthage Crushed Limestone), Colorado Lime Company, Mill Creek Dolomite, LLC, Texas Lime Company, U.S. Lime Company, U.S. Lime Company-Shreveport, U.S. Lime Company-St. Clair, and U.S. Lime Company-Transportation.

The company produces high-quality limestone from its open-pit quarries and underground mines that it sells as crushed limestone or processes further to produce several higher-value lime and limestone products, including pulverized limestone (‘PLS’), quicklime, hydrated lime, and lime slurry. PLS (also referred to as ground calcium carbonate) is produced by applying heat to dry the limestone, which is then ground to granular and finer sizes. Quicklime (calcium oxide) is produced by heating limestone to very high temperatures in kilns in a process called calcination. Hydrated lime (calcium hydroxide) is produced by reacting quicklime with water in a controlled process. Lime slurry (milk of lime) is a suspended solution of calcium hydroxide produced by mixing quicklime with water in a lime slaker.

Crushed limestone is used primarily in construction aggregates. PLS is used in the production of construction materials, such as roof shingles and asphalt paving, as an additive to agriculture feeds, in the production of glass, as an agricultural soil enhancement, in flue gas treatment for utilities and other industries requiring scrubbing of emissions for environmental purposes, and for mine safety dust in coal mining operations. Quicklime is used primarily in metal processing, in flue gas treatment, in soil stabilization for highway, road, and building construction, as well as for oilfield roads and drill sites, in the manufacturing of paper products, and in municipal sanitation and water treatment facilities. Hydrated lime is used primarily in municipal sanitation and water treatment facilities, in soil stabilization for highway, road, and building construction, in flue gas treatment, in asphalt as an anti-stripping agent, as a conditioning agent for oil and gas drilling mud, and in the production of chemicals. Lime slurry is used primarily in soil stabilization for highway, road, and building construction.

Product Sales

In 2024, the company sold almost all of its lime and limestone products in the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Sales were made primarily by the company’s eight sales employees who call on customers and solicit orders, which are generally made on a purchase-order basis. The company also receives orders in response to bids that it prepares and submits to customers.

Principal customers for the company’s lime and limestone products are construction customers (including highway, road, and building contractors), industrial customers (including paper manufacturers and glass manufacturers), environmental customers (including municipal sanitation and water treatment facilities, and flue gas treatment processes), metals producers (including steel producers), roof shingle manufacturers, agriculture (including poultry producers), and oil and gas services companies.

Approximately 675 customers accounted for the company’s sales of lime and limestone products during 2024.

Lime and limestone products are transported by truck and rail to customers generally within a radius of 400 miles of each of the company’s plants. All of the company’s 2024 sales were made within the United States.

Seasonality

The company’s sales have typically reflected seasonal trends, with the largest percentage of total annual shipments and revenues normally being realized in the second and third quarters (year ended December 31, 2024). Lower seasonal demand normally results in reduced shipments and revenues in the first and fourth quarters. Inclement weather conditions generally have a negative impact on the demand for lime and limestone products supplied to construction-related customers, as well as on the company’s open-pit quarrying operations.

Limestone Mineral Resources and Reserves

The company’s limestone mineral resources and reserves contain at least 96% calcium carbonate (CaCO3). The company has four subsidiaries that extract limestone from open-pit quarries: Texas Lime Company (‘Texas Lime’), which operates the Texas Lime Quarry and is located near Cleburne, Texas; Arkansas Lime Company (‘Arkansas Lime’), which operates the Batesville Quarry and is located near Batesville, Arkansas; ACT Holdings, Inc. (‘ACT’), which owns the Love Hollow Quarry and is located near Cushman, Arkansas; and Mill Creek Dolomite, LLC (‘Mill Creek’), which operates the Mill Creek Quarry and is located near Mill Creek, Oklahoma. U.S. Lime Company-St. Clair (‘St. Clair’) extracts limestone from the St. Clair Mine, an underground mine located near Marble City, Oklahoma. Carthage Crushed Limestone (‘Carthage’) extracts limestone from the Carthage Mine, an underground mine located in Carthage, Missouri. Colorado Lime Company (‘Colorado Lime’) owns property containing limestone deposits at Monarch Pass, Colorado. Existing crushed limestone stockpiles on the property are being used to provide feedstock to the company’s plant in Delta, Colorado. Access to all properties is provided by paved roads, and, in the case of Arkansas Lime, St. Clair, Carthage, and Mill Creek, also by rail.

During 2023, the company engaged SYB Group, LLC (‘SYB’) to serve as the Qualified Person (‘QP’) to update estimates of the company’s limestone mineral resources and reserves, as of December 31, 2023.

The company has not conducted a drilling program on any of the Material Properties subsequent to the December 31, 2023, effective date of the 2023 TRSs.

Texas Lime owns the Texas Lime Quarry and has crushed limestone, PLS, quicklime, and hydrated lime production facilities, located on approximately 5,200 acres of land in Johnson County, Texas, that contains known high-quality limestone mineral resources in a bed averaging 25 to 35 feet in thickness.

Arkansas Lime owns the Batesville Quarry and has crushed limestone, PLS, quicklime, and hydrated lime production facilities, located on approximately 1,260 acres of land located in Independence County, Arkansas, that contains known high-quality limestone mineral resources in a bed averaging 60 feet in thickness.

In 2005, the company acquired the Love Hollow Quarry, which is owned by ACT and associated with Arkansas Lime, located on approximately 2,500 acres of land in Izard County, Arkansas. In 2022, the company improved and developed the transportation infrastructure between the Love Hollow Quarry and Arkansas Lime’s production facilities, incurred other development costs to prepare the Love Hollow Quarry for mining, and began sourcing a portion of the Arkansas Lime plant’s limestone requirements from the Love Hollow Quarry.

St. Clair operates the St. Clair Mine and has crushed limestone, PLS, quicklime, and hydrated lime production facilities located on approximately 1,400 acres that it owns in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, containing high-quality limestone resources and also has long-term mineral leases that provide the right to mine high-quality limestone resources contained in approximately 1,340 adjacent acres.

Carthage operates the Carthage Mine and has crushed limestone production facilities located on approximately 800 acres that it owns containing high-quality limestone. In addition, Carthage has the right to mine the high-quality limestone contained in approximately 760 adjacent acres pursuant to long-term mineral leases.

Mill Creek operates the Mill Creek Quarry and production facilities located on approximately 570 acres that it owns where it mines and processes crushed dolomitic limestone.

Colorado Lime acquired the Monarch Pass Quarry in November 1995 and has not carried out any mining on the property. The Monarch Pass Quarry, which had been operated for many years until the early 1990s, contains a mixture of limestone types, including high-quality calcium limestone.

Quarrying and Mining

The company extracts limestone by the open-pit method at its Texas, Batesville, Love Hollow, and Mill Creek Quarries. The Monarch Pass Quarry is also an open-pit quarry but is not being mined at this time. The open-pit method consists of removing any overburden comprising soil and other substances, including inferior limestone, and then extracting the exposed high-quality limestone. The company removes such overburden by utilizing both its own employees and equipment and those of outside contractors. Open-pit mining is generally less expensive than underground mining. The principal disadvantage of the open-pit method is that operations are subject to inclement weather and overburden removal. The limestone is extracted by drilling and blasting, utilizing standard mining equipment. At the St. Clair and Carthage mines, the company mines limestone underground using room and pillar mining.

Plants and Facilities

The company produces and distributes crushed limestone, PLS, and quicklime products at five plants, six lime slurry facilities, and three terminal facilities. All of its plants and facilities are accessible by paved roads, and, in the case of the Arkansas Lime, St. Clair, and Carthage plants, the Love Hollow Quarry, and the terminal facilities, also by rail.

In addition to the company’s production of crushed limestone at each of its plants, the following company plants produce additional lime and limestone products:

The Texas Lime plant has an annual capacity of approximately 470 thousand tons of quicklime from two preheater rotary kilns. The plant also has PLS equipment, which, depending on the product mix, has the capacity to produce approximately 800 thousand tons of PLS annually.

The Arkansas Lime plant is situated at the Batesville Quarry. Utilizing three preheater rotary kilns, this plant has an annual capacity of approximately 650 thousand tons of quicklime. The Arkansas Lime plant is approximately 21 miles from the Love Hollow Quarry, to which it is connected by railroad. Arkansas Lime’s PLS and hydrating facilities are situated on a tract of 290 acres located approximately two miles from the Batesville Quarry, to which it is connected by a company-owned railroad. The PLS equipment, depending on the product mix, has the capacity to produce approximately 300 thousand tons of PLS annually.

The St. Clair plant has an annual capacity of approximately 250 thousand tons of quicklime from one vertical kiln and one preheater rotary kiln. The plant also has PLS equipment, which has the capacity to produce approximately 150 thousand tons of PLS annually.

The Carthage plant has facilities located next to the Carthage Mine that produce both crushed limestone and PLS. The equipment has the capacity to produce approximately 900 thousand tons annually.

The Mill Creek plant has facilities located next to the Mill Creek Quarry that produce dolomitic PLS products. The equipment has the capacity to produce approximately 300 thousand tons annually.

The company also maintains lime hydrating and bagging equipment at the Texas, Arkansas, and St. Clair plants. Storage facilities for lime and limestone products at each plant consist primarily of cylindrical tanks, which are considered by the company to be adequate to protect its lime and limestone products and to provide an available supply for customers’ needs at the expected volumes of shipments. Equipment is maintained at each plant to load trucks and, at the Arkansas Lime, St. Clair, and Mill Creek plants, to load railroad cars.

Colorado Lime operates a limestone grinding and bagging facility with an annual capacity of approximately 125 thousand tons, located on approximately three and one-half acres of land in Delta, Colorado.

During 2024, the company’s utilization rate was approximately 69% of its total annual production capacity for its lime and limestone.

U.S. Lime Company uses quicklime to produce lime slurry, and has four Houston area facilities, including two distribution terminals connected to railroads, to serve the Greater Houston area construction market and four facilities to serve the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. The company established U.S. Lime Company-Transportation to deliver some of the company’s products to its customers and facilities primarily in Texas.

U.S. Lime Company-Shreveport operates a distribution terminal in Shreveport, Louisiana, which is connected to a railroad, to provide lime storage, hydrating, slurrying, and distribution capacity to service markets in Louisiana and East Texas.

Compliance with Government Regulations

The company’s operations are subject to various federal, state, and local laws and regulations relating to the environment, health and safety, and other regulatory matters, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and analogous state and local laws, including state mining and reclamation statutes and regulations (‘Environmental Laws’). These Environmental Laws grant the United States Environmental Protection Agency (the ‘EPA’), state governmental agencies, and local governments the authority to promulgate and enforce regulations that could result in substantial expenditures on pollution control, waste management, permitting compliance activities, and mining reclamation.

The Clean Air Act and analogous state laws require the company to obtain authorization to construct or modify existing facilities, and its lime plants are subject to operating permits that have significant ongoing compliance costs.

EPA regulations require large emitters of greenhouse gases, including the company’s plants, to collect and report greenhouse gas emissions data.

The company also holds permits for process water and storm water discharges and must comply with the Clean Water Act and analogous state laws and regulations.

The company’s mining operations are also subject to regulation under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (the ‘Mine Act’).

History

United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. was founded in 1950. The company was incorporated in 1950.

United States Lime & Minerals Questions and Answers

Which sectors generate sales and which are the top 3 markets?

**Lime Industry:** approx. 70% **Building Materials:** approx. 20% **Other Industries:** approx. 10% **TOP 3 Markets:** 1. **Construction Industry:** approx. 40% 2. **Steel Production:** approx. 30% 3. **Environmental Services:** approx. 20% United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. ge...

At which locations are the company’s products manufactured?

**Production Sites:** - Texas - Arkansas - Oklahoma United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. operates multiple production facilities in the U.S. states of Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. These locations are strategically chosen to efficiently serve the demand in various regions of the USA. The compan...

What strategy does United States Lime & Minerals pursue for future growth?

**Revenue Growth:** Estimated at 8-10% (2025 based on industry trends and historical data) United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. pursues a growth strategy based on expanding its production capacities and entering new markets. The company continuously invests in modernizing and expanding its facil...

Which raw materials are imported and from which countries?

**Main raw materials:** Limestone, Dolomite **Import countries:** No significant imports United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. is a company that is mainly engaged in the extraction and processing of limestone and dolomite. These raw materials are typically mined locally in the USA as the compan...

How strong is the company’s competitive advantage?

**Market share:** Estimated 20% in the lime and minerals market (2025) **EBITDA margin:** 30% (2024) United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. has a significant competitive advantage in the lime and minerals industry. The company benefits from a strong market share, which is attributed to its long-s...

What is the share of institutional investors and insider buying/selling?

**Institutional Investor Share:** 35% (estimated, based on historical data from 2023) **Insider Purchases:** No significant purchases in the last year (2024) **Insider Sales:** 2% of shares in the last year (2024) The institutional investor share in United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. is esti...

What percentage market share does United States Lime & Minerals have?

**Market share of United States Lime & Minerals, Inc.:** Estimated around 5-7% (2025) **Top competitors and their market shares:** 1. **Lhoist Group:** around 20% 2. **Carmeuse Group:** around 15% 3. **Graymont Limited:** around 10% 4. **Mississippi Lime Company:** around 8% 5. **United States...

Is United States Lime & Minerals stock currently a good investment?

**Revenue Growth:** 8.2% (2024) **Profit Growth:** 10.5% (2024) **Return on Equity:** 14.8% (2024) United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. recorded solid revenue growth of 8.2% in 2024, attributed to stable demand for its products. The profit growth of 10.5% indicates that the company operates effi...

Does United States Lime & Minerals pay a dividend – and how reliable is the payout?

**Dividend Yield:** 0.8% (2024) **Dividend Growth:** 5% (annually, average over the last 5 years) United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. regularly pays a dividend to its shareholders. The dividend yield is approximately 0.8%, which is rather moderate compared to other companies in the industry. T...

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